“Live House” dir. Kevin Mcgue

„Live house” is a term for a small club with live music: these concert-rooms are centres of DIY culture and places for intercultural exchange and flow of ideas. Mike Watt (Minutemen, J. Mascis + The Fog, The Stooges) is the guide through these crowded and smoke-filled clubs.

Phew [JP]

Phew, springing out of tradition of Japanese new wave, co-founder of one of the first avantpunk bands in Japan, cooperating with artists such as Otomo Yoshihide, Bill Laswell or Dieter Moebius. Constructs precise and balanced, as well as strongly emotive, bleak and spatial. Electronic non-platitudes, broken harmonies, damaged machine-generated rhythms.

Ken Mai [JP] – “XESDERCAS”

An exceptional personality in the art of Butoh, harnessing the school's traditions as well as the experiences of German expressionist theatre. At the AAF he will present a solo programme inspired by the Hindu tradition of Dhyama and will also conduct a workshop.

Aya Irizuki – “Thread Clay” [JP]

Uncouth gestures and uninhibited physicality - „a bodily immersion” - in Ankoku Butoh as a bridge between classical Japanese dance and influences of Western expression, extracting an ineffable body of ideas from the corporeality.

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“2045: Carnival Folklore” dir. Naoki Kato

Anarchic and irreverent fusion of science-fiction and musical, inspired by the Fukushima nuclear disaster: a vision of a totalitarian post-nuclear society infested with inner conflict.
The movie screening will be accompanied by a performance by Sierror!: a noise band formed by the creators of the film, which „destroys the ears with electronics, guitar, howling and feedback”.

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Ken Mai [JP] – workshop

An exceptional personality in the art of Butoh, harnessing the school's traditions as well as the experiences of German expressionist theatre. At the AAF he will present „XESDERCAS” and will also conduct a workshop.

Phew, Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto [JP, DE]

A joint concert by lively veterans of Japanese and German underground: associated mainly with Einstürzende Neubauten Hacke, Danielle de Picciotto (i.a. Die Haut, Crime and the City Solution), and known from her minimal, personal electro-formulas Phew: Deutsch-Japanische Freundschaft!